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APPLY NOW: Michael O'Pray Prize 2025

We are delighted to announce that submissions for the ninth edition of the Michael O’Pray Prize, an award for new writing on innovation and experimentation in the moving image, are now open!

Application deadline: 12 noon, 9 June 2025

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Now on FVU Watch: This Sporting Life (2002) by Julie Henry

This month Film and Video Umbrella will be presenting Julie Henry’s 2002 film This Sporting Life on FVU Watch, in memory of the late artist who passed away earlier this year after a long illness.

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Now Open: Rhea Storr, Subjects of State, Labours of Love (2025)

Subjects of State, Labours of Love is a two-chapter film by acclaimed artist Rhea Storr. Shot on 16mm film, the work is presented as an immersive multi-channel video installation and exhibition that captures the shared joys, celebrations, struggles, oppressions and complexities experienced by Caribbean heritage communities.

On view at Site Gallery, Sheffield from the 14th February 2025
and at Wolverhampton Art Gallery from 7th March 2025

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An introduction to Film and Video Umbrella

You can now watch an introduction to the organisation’s history and ongoing programmes by FVU’s Director Angelica Sule

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Film and Video Umbrella commissions, produces and curates moving-image works by artists. For three decades FVU has led the way in championing new creative talent and promoting innovative ideas.

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Latest Projects

Hope Strickland

a river holds a perfect memory

Michael O'Pray Prize 2025

Rhea Storr

Subjects of State, Labours of Love

Gayle Chong Kwan

A Pocket Full of Sand

Daniel Cockburn

Ahead of the Curve

Sophie Hoyle

Aphonia

Hope Strickland

a river holds a perfect memory

Michael O'Pray Prize 2025

Rhea Storr

Subjects of State, Labours of Love

Gayle Chong Kwan

A Pocket Full of Sand

Daniel Cockburn

Ahead of the Curve

Sophie Hoyle

Aphonia

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Julie Henry

This Sporting Life

This month Film and Video Umbrella will be presenting Julie Henry’s 2002 film This Sporting Life on FVU Watch, in...

Patrick Hough

And If In A Thousand Years

Patrick Hough’s 2017 FVU-commissioned work And If In A Thousand Years is our latest feature on FVU Watch. After the...

Sophie Cundale

The Near Room

We are delighted to be presenting Sophie Cundale’s FVU-commissioned film The Near Room (2020) for the first time on FVU...

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Beer and Skittles

Steven Bode has written a new text reflecting on the expansive life and practice of late artist Julie Henry, alongside the creation of her FVU-commissioned work This Sporting Life (2002).

Lola Olufemi on Rhea Storr

Lola Olufemi's textual response uses objects, images and phrases found in Rhea Storr’s film Subjects of State, Labours of Love and weaves them together to create a textual meditation on work, ‘blackness’ and political transformation.

Commencement Speech

To accompany Patrick Hough's feature on FVU Watch, you can now read Naomi Pearce’s 2017 essay, Commencement Speech, commissioned as part of the catalogue for the Jerwood/ FVU Awards 2017, which took the form of a facsimile of fictitious documents.

The Screen is a Drum

Michael O'Pray Prize 2024 awardee E De Zulueta explores the delirious resistance of Mexican filmmakers Colectivo los ingrávidos

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